Book Review: Cord of Three Strands

 

Cord of Three Strands

by Christy Distler

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Christian  |  Historical Fiction 

Pub Date 08 Jun 2020

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When 1756 begins Issac Lukens leaves the Pennsylvania wilderness after two years with the Lenape people.  He has failed to find the families of his birth parents, a French trader and a Lenape woman.  Even worse the tribe he has lived with has rejected his efforts at peacemaking, and now they are ravaging frontier settlements in retaliation.  After Issac arrives in the Quaker community where he was reared, questions taunt him:  He wants to know who he is a white man, or Lenape?  Where does he belong?

Elisabeth Alden was Issac’s nearest and dearest childhood friend, she is left to to tend her young siblings alone upon her father’s death.  Issac had promised to care for her and the children, she battles resentment toward him for having left, while an unspeakable tragedy and her discordant courtship with a prominent Philadelphian weigh on her as well.

Elisabeth finds that she must marry or she will loose custody or her young siblings and her options threaten the life with her and the children that Isaac has come to love.  While faced with Elisabeth’s reluctance to Marry, and the prospect of finding his family at last, as well as being faced with the opportunity to help in the peace process between Pennsylvania and the Indian tribes.  But Issac must first find out where and to whom he belongs.

I give A Cord of Three Strands five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!